2 KAYLOR NURSERIES, LAKEWOOD, WASH. 
We Review 1942 
To those who keep an ear open for the 
whisperings of Mother Nature there are 
always new things to learn. Last year 
brought its share of experiences from which 
the following opinions and facts are re- 
ported. We hope they will be of some value 
to our customers. 
Among the Glads, Sensation, Marimba, 
R. B., Mt. Index and Tunolia were the tall- 
est and largest flowered. A few folks did 
not care for the smoky orange-pink-russety 
color of R. B., but most visitors put it on 
their “must” list for this year. Margaret 
Beaton’s brilliant red throat attracted in- 
stant attention, but it did not “wear” as 
well with folks as the golden tones of Mt. 
Index and the latter’s long, strong stem 
put it in first place among the whites. It 
even surpassed the new Snow Princess as 
an attention getter. The upright ’round- 
the-stem waxy pure white of Tunolia made 
it in big demand for corsage and bouquet 
work. It is without throat markings and 
florists took every spike we had. 
This brings up the question of cutting 
glads. If the spikes are cut right it benefits 
the bulbs; but never take a shears into your 
Glad patch—always use a sharp pointed 
knife to “nick” the stem thru the leaves 
and then it can be pulled out, leaving the 
leaves on the plant to ripen and develop 
the bulb. Do not let your Glads set seed,. 
but remove the spikes so as to give the 
bulb a chance to develop strength for next 
year. 
The most beautiful Glad? Oh Boy! Now 
that is some question, different people hav- 
ing many different ideas of beauty. But 
here are our favorites for 1942. Let’s start 
with whites. Mt. Index, Tunolia, Mary Eliz- 
abeth and that ruffled beauty, Myrna. Very 
light pink, Maid of Honor. Medium pink, 
Picardy and Fortune. Deep salmon pink, 
Margaret Fulton and Laddie. Light red, 
Royal Pledge, J. S. Bach and Aldebaran. 
Searlet, Algonquin comes closest to real 
scarlet while Chiroco is the only real crim- 
son we have ever seen. For a red deeper 
than crimson, Hindenburg’s Memory. Throw 
a rose shade into deep red and we have 
Leona. In black-reds we still give Thunder- 
bird and Leschi first place. Neither Rewi 
Fallu or Black Opal—both good Glads—are 
black-red but rather very deep crimsons. 
Let’s start out from white again and here 
Shirley Temple comes as the best cream. 
Some find it tempermental but it has al- 
ways behaved fine with us. Deeping the 
cream to a light buff and we have Amulet 
with its many ruffles. Throw in a few 
shades more buff and we reach Paradise— 
and a lot of you folks are missing a good 
bet by not growing this one. 
Years ago we introduced Orange Sov- 
ereign to U. S. fans and we still place it 
first among light oranges. Yakima Apricot, 
orange-apricot is earliest. Barcarole is 
larger and deeper but the stem is short. 
Not so with Bit O’Heaven, medium size but 
a real ripe orange color. Back up to light 
orange and take the golden path and here 
is Tahlahneka, a medium yellow so far out 
in front in good qualities that it leads. 
The so-called blue section contains many 
varieties. We have grown most of them and 
discarded down to Blue Admiral and Blue 
Beauty for deep blueish-purples and Winall 
for light. Close up to the blues comes the 
lavenders and first place goes to Lavender 
Ruffles—not so big as some but a clear, 
clean light color beautifully ruffled. A 
deeper shade, as well as larger and taller 
spike, is found in Lavender Queen. 
Next come the purples and we have yet 
to find a light purple with as many good 
points as Kulshan. Florists call it fuschia 
purple and take every spike, even those 
from the bulblets late in the season. John 
Virgil is a real purple but because it opens 
almost all its florets at one time it is not 
so popular as King Lear which is more on 
the reddish side. 
In the novelty section, Dragonette is the 
smallest flowered and its yellow center with 
pink edgings give it distinction. Miss Poca- 
tello’s very long stems makes it valuable 
for tall bouquet work where a wide open, 
orange edged lavender flower is wanted. 
Sahara is an odd but beautiful shade, rather 
brownish. Summer Breeze, a heavily ruf- 
fled small flower is oftentimes fragrant. 
Puck is one to laugh at with his extremely 
long orange petals and it will be a long 
time before the deep brown and brilliant 
red of Vagabond Prince is beaten in its 
color class. 
“Once in a Blue Moon” could well have 
been said about the plant breeder’s work. 
If he finds one in a thousand of his seed- 
lings that is worth saving he is fortunate. 
After this one worth while plant has been 
found stock has to be built up by dividing 
and growing on. The work takes years and 
then the experimenter may find his petted 
plant has developed short-comings that 
makes it useless. It is a work we cannot 
recommend to those who want to get rich 
quick—Mother Nature does not give a 
whoop about money—but the thrill a plant 
lover gets out of producing something new 
that will give pleasure to other plant lovers 
is quite soul-satisfying. 
Years ago we started this work in a 
very limited way and now have a number 
of perennials and gladioli that have found 
favor with many flower gardeners. Other 
things are coming along for later introduc- 
tion. Some of these may perhaps require a 
greater number of years of development 
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